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Burt Gummer has made a career out of hunting sub-terrestrial
creatures, but everyone has to return home sometime. Back in perfection he’s
welcomed back as an old friend, though he’s noticed a change in the status quo.
There’s a new man, Desert Jack Sawyer, treating Perfection as a theme park and
collecting money from tourists looking to lay eyes on a real live Graboid. As
Burt attempts to get used to the new ways of the town, Desert Jack’s tour is
getting a little too real.

I can honestly say that I really just like the entire
series. I haven’t seen the fourth one, but I’ve decided to stop underestimating
these movies. I didn’t think the first one would be great, and it blew me away.
I thought the second one would be pointless and I loved it. With the third one,
I really thought it’d be just an extension of “been-there, done-that” and
turned out to be hilarious and original. The only other series I’ve enjoyed as
much as “Tremors” is “Jurassic Park.”

One can’t go into this series, however, expecting a huge
blockbuster kind of setting or special effects. It’s a cult classic instead of
a top earner for just that reason. It has to be that, it certainly wasn’t the
plot.

The acting was a little overbearing, but that comes with the
territory in this kind of movie. With a lower budget and a more fun-time
script, the actors are bound to have a lot of fun and a little less sharp
emotion to their performances. That, in no way, means I thought any of them
were unbelievable. Considering exactly what they had to act out, I’m impressed
any of them pushed through the hysterical laughter long enough to utter a
single line.

I have an issue with the rating. I do not, under any
circumstances, believe that this movie was rated PG. I think that might have
been a Netflix glitch or the committee in charge of ratings was
falling-down-drunk when they decided this one. At the very least, it’s rated
PG-13. Despite the orange-colored blood, the movie can get fairly gory and if
they used any of the minor curses even one more time it might as well have been
an episode of “South Park.”

Marisa, a maid, is dutifully cleaning her rooms when one of
her coworkers convinces her to try on a guest’s designer outfit. She’s caught
in the expensive clothing by a senator candidate and they hit it off. As they
bond over her gifted child, they begin to fall deeper in with each other.

I like some movies with this recipe, but there has to be
something exceedingly special about them. Something has to get them to stand
out; whether it’s a fantastic script, or brilliant acting or even a slight
unexpected twist thrown into the otherwise par-for-the-course plot. Maid in
Manhattan had none of that. I think that, maybe, the writers thought that
giving the poor maid a gifted son would add that twist to their cookie-cutter
script, but they were wrong. I’ll admit it didn’t hurt, but it certainly didn’t
pull the movie out of the rut it gets stuck in from the very beginning.

I’ve liked Jennifer Lopez before. In “Selena” she was
outstanding and stuck to the character like duct tape, but she falls flat on
her face here. I simply couldn’t buy her as the hard-working, struggling,
single mom that she had to portray. However, I thought Tyler Posey was great,
especially for a child actor. It’s very easy for child actors to over-act, possibly
because they don’t understand the societal norms for certain emotions and
circumstances, but Posey didn’t fall into that trap.

If you enjoy this specific movie recipe than it’s something
you might be able to use as background noise, but don’t expect to be impressed.